Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-27
RUsINEss WOMEN:
r,o Great Metropolis Running over
with Them.

uocrcat Metropolis running over
with Them.
WV YORK, March, 26.-New York
ovar with business women just now
, ,uu and September are the months
NO. NO., ae,ight in. They come from the
s s1 q little, from the West great deal
.,,o,nt the wholesalers and the JOB
lne! Srms and they lay in dry goods,
OLE ~ and notions that will lit up num-
nttle stores out on the skirts OF
ulit,v,iij7at1on, making glad the cattle ranch
CIV 'lno,,sinS the mining camp to blossom
@nt go rose. "Few people have any ldea,"
Sronrchant said to NE yesterday new
'.raolv the Western trade is lalllng INTO
mime hands, FiVe-siXths OF all our
noiIlinerv buyers are women, ana oy iar
,ba lager share Of the money we hAhole
ia Maid over by their hahas' iney are
ID tS in here every day by the dozens
uo nd he scores. They know just what
anu ant and insist on having IL too.
I IHs,,o snen them succeed time and again
haro man. and good business man,
,i6 laU. BE goes West in the pride OF
sis Naw York experience to grow up WIN
No n'o nonntrv. He fills up his counters with
NV! NV o,,cb gOods as he has found saleaole
,o. fhav don't take with his customers,
n,d in twelve months he is eaten up by
"roditors. A woman goes 10 the same
Tisca and inside of twenty-four hours she
tnovs what colors every other woman
in the place is wearing, what sort OF nat
lho iilies and out OF what sne makes her
lT She orders her goods accordingly
"a travels the straight road to pros
perity.. and bo noirtod out
,tttIo creature in black who had just en-
tered the room. ''She is one OF them and
sGe is buvIng artificial flowers. See,
theV are pond lilies, boxes and boxes or
tbem We couldn't sell as many in year
A. ali New York as she is carrying out TO
Wyoming Territory now. They are use
less here, but she knows what's wanted
mere. She'll make no mistake; you can
trust her every time to suit her market
ord her trade. She has come all The way
ocross the continent alone. and she'll buy
in Boston and Chicago before she goes
beok, Twice year regularly l expect
her She leaves family of children
at home. She's brave little woman,
hut there are plenty moro Ia the
business like her and they are dong
good deal 10 build up the country among
them"
about that when the all-conQuering dry
goods store adds the caterer to the list
If its victims and opens a restaurant
one never sees the shop girl there at
mealf
The dry goods restaurant Is the stamp
ing ground Of the clty's hungry women.
II abounds in racks for their bundles, in
high chairs for the babies they bring in
tow. in chocolate and buns for the uni
versal sweet tooth Of the shopper and her
Nlbe. The restaurant runs over with the
satisfied bargain hunter. The bargain
seller must eat, but where, or when or
hewf Is her weekly wage Of the size
that corresponds beat with a cold boiled
potato devouTed In silence away from the
allurements OF the Vienna eafeS That 10
her secret, for the most part, not yours
or mine. But now and then, in her moods
of extravaganza, when the wearer of the
black apron and the dangling scissors
treats herself to bit of lunch. does she
parade herself at those round tables before
the eyes OF her late customers in the garb
Of a snop girl, think you? Not if she is
New York girl ;no.
Three minutes in the dressing room and
what wonders they work. She adjusts
her wrap; she percheS her hat above her
euFls; she pins on the useless and provOk-
: PIX lace veil; she settles her gloves; she
axes ready for brisk spring campaign.
hen-she passes quietly down the stairs
nd without stirring a foot out Of doors
be loses herself on the crowded scene OF
ctlon among the throng OF the women
uyeFs, a lady OF leisure, among her kin
nd her kind. She has FORGOTTEN the
ounter; she thinks not of the trouble
ome ''cash." She has her brown paper
|arcel with the rest. She looks, as she
riders her stew or her fry, as If she bad
bought two or three spring gowns
Fbefore sitting down in her place and might
look at oonnets when her appetite was
battlefield.
How do ] knowP Ive seen Cinderella
Shind the counter, the princess in the
staurant the other side of the pOftiere
few feet away, and the backward
aRsformatiOH to matching ribbons and
landing down boxes when the ball was
done.
And yet they wonder why she doesn't
AoJure the long hours and the lean pocket
pok to do homework In the American
hmilY that waits and longs for the
american girl. She is too thoroughly
One OF her own country women. She
Twill sell you lace handkerchief, 1t may
pc. but she will sit at your side your
Equal before yeu have taken the bundle
nome.